Verfassungsblog (Nov 2022)

#DefendingTheDefenders – Episode 2: Belarus

  • Dmitri Laevski,
  • Lennart Kokott

Journal volume & issue
no. 2366-7044

Abstract

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In the second episode of Defending the Defenders, we talk to Dmitri Laevski about the rule of law and human rights in Belarus. Dmitri is a criminal attorney turned human rights lawyer in the wake of the 2020 presidential elections. He takes us through the recent history of the rule of law in Belarus, from realising that the concept he learned about in university didn’t really exist in practice to the organisation of the legal professions in the last decade to the rule of law crackdown in 2020 and ever since.

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